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Becki Green
Passionate doctoral researcher with a keen interest in open, collaborative science and dementia research. Pronouns: she/her.
Education
PhD, Neuroscience Research
Institute of Psychology, Psychiatry and Neuroscience - King’s College London
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2022 - 2019
- Awards: Enrichment scholarship student at the Alan Turing Insititute (2020-2022) with access to facilities, mentoring and courses.
- Additional responsibilities: Member of the Turing Steering Group as a student representative.
MSc, Genes, Environment and Development in Psychology and Psychiatry (Distinction, 78%)
Institute of Psychology, Psychiatry and Neuroscience - King’s College London
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2018 - 2017
- Awards: King’s Interdisciplinary Award in Art, Science & Mental Health.
MSc, Biomedical Sciences Research (Merit, 69%)
Medical Sciences - University of Bristol
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2015 - 2014
- Additional responsibilities: Elected student council representative.
Bsc, Physiological Science (2:1)
Medical Sciences - University of Bristol
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2013 - 2010
- Additional responsibilities: Elected chair and cofounder of MedSciSoc (BSc Medical Sciences society).
Research & Industry Experience
DECOVID project collaborator
The Alan Turing Institute
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2022 - 2021
- Working with and characterising electronic health record data contained in a PostGres database in a data safe haven. Creating reproducible pipelines to enable collaboration across research teams. Assessing data quality and evaluating against a data ethics framework. Led by Dr Kirstie Whitaker.
- Contributing to The Turing Way - a community-driven handbook for reproducible, ethical and collaborative data science.
PhD Student
Institute of Psychology, Psychiatry and Neuroscience - King’s College London
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2022 - 2019
- Thesis: Linking blood metabolites to early dementia using systems biology. Supervisors: Dr Petroula Proitsi & Professor Marcus Richards.
- Utilising network, pathway and metabolome-wide approaches to highlight key metabolites influencing early markers of dementia - including imaging, blood and cognition measures - in large cohort studies. Teasing apart the involvement of risk factors across the life course and using statistical genetics approaches, such as mendelian randomisation and polygenic scores, to further understand the nature of these relationships.
Transfer learning project collaborator
The Alan Turing Institute
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2021
- Developing and applying transfer learning methodologies to map non-overlapping features and build prediction models for conversion to dementia. Led by Professor David Lewellyn.
Freelance Editor
Cactus Communications - Worldwide
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2019 - 2018
- Editing, formatting, and proofreading scientific manuscripts prior to journal submission in the field of Life Sciences.
Masters Student
Institute of Psychology, Psychiatry and Neuroscience - King’s College London
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2018
- Investigating the relationships between polygenic risks scores for hypothalamic pituitary axis function, stressful life events, and the development of emotional problems.
Research Officer
NIHR Clinical Research Network West of England - Bristol
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2017 - 2016
- Managing the set up and delivery of primary care clinical research studies in 59 sites. Championing research in the West of England, and leading events to promote patient and public involvement. Undertaking audits into research delivery and performance.
Research Assistant (Healthcare)
NIHR Clinical Research Network West of England - Bristol
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2016
- Supporting the delivery of clinical trials. Leading study specific training in the West of England as well as utilising clinical skills to carry out and document trials.
Masters Student
Clinical Research Imaging Centre - Bristol
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2015
- Developing and evaluating the use of a cognitive-motor task as a quantitative measure of fatigue using functional fMRI in healthy volunteers.
Teaching Experience
Big Data with Python
Skill lead (2021-22), Teaching assistant (2020), BSc Psychology - King’s College London
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2022 - 2020
- Roles: Course design and material creation, seminar and practical leader, marking, forum management, evaluation and feedback.
- Content: Data wrangling, visualisation, and intro to machine learning.
Origins of Individual Differences
Teaching assistant, BSc Psychology - King’s College London
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2022 - 2019
- Roles: Course design and material creation, seminar and practical lead, marking.
- Content: Social, genetic and environmental contributions to individual differences.
Reproducible Reporting Using Markdown
Workshop assistant, open to all researchers - DEMON Network
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2021
- Roles: Assisting with workshop design and delivery.
- Content: Markdown, git and GitHub.
Research Methods
Teaching assistant, BSc Psychology - King’s College London
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2020
- Roles: Marking.
- Content: Statistical methods in SPSS and R.
Mendelian Randomisation
Teaching assistant, MSc Neuroscience - King’s College London
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2020 - 2019
- Roles: Assisting with seminar design and delivery.
- Content: Mendelian Randomisation in R.
Polygenic Summer School
Workshop assistant, open to all researchers - London
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2019
- Roles: Assisting with workshop delivery.
- Content: Genome-wide association studies and polygenic risk scores.
Volunteer Work
Rethink Mental Illness
London, UK
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2019 - 2018
- Raising funds and participating in photoshoots and blogs to encourage others to fundraise.
Crisis at Christmas
Birmingham, UK
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2017 - 2014
- Assisting with the set up and delivery of food, shelter and entertainment for Crisis service users over the Christmas period.
Kissing it Better
Warwick, UK
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2014 - 2012
- Assisting and implementing strategies to improve care environments for inpatients with dementia.
Cherry Trees Care Home
Alcester, UK
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2012 - 2010
- Assisting with care and entertainment in a local nursing home for individuals with dementia.
Publications
The Turing Way: A Handbook for Reproducible Data Science
Zenodo
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2021
- Cowrote Creating Project Repositories and virtual collaboration [WIP] chapters. Reviewed multiple chapters.
Metabolic correlates of late midlife cognitive function: findings from the 1946 British Birth Cohort
Under review
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2021
- Green., R., Lord, J., Xu, J., Maddock, J., Kim, M., Dobson, R., … Protisi, P.
Sex-specific metabolic pathways associate with Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) endophenotypes in the European Medical Information Framework for AD Multimodal Biomarker Discovery (EMIF-AD MBD) cohort
medRxiv (preprint)
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2021
- Xu, J., Green, R., Kim, M., Lord, J., Ebshiana, A., Westwood, S., … Legido-Quigley, C.
Assessing Genetic Overlap and Causality Between Blood Plasma Proteins and Alzheimer’s Disease
Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease
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2021
- Handy, A., Lord, J., Green, R., Xu, J., Aarsland, D., Velayudhan, L., … Proitsi, P.
Disentangling independent and mediated causal relationships between blood metabolites, cognitive factors, and Alzheimer’s Disease
Biological Psychiatry: Global Open Science
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2021
- Lord, J., Green, R., Choi, S.W., Hubel, C., Aarsland, D., Velayudhan, L., … Proitsi, P.
Mendelian randomization identifies blood metabolites previously linked to midlife cognition as causal candidates in Alzheimer’s disease
PNAS
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2021
- Lord, J., Jermy, B., Green, R., Wong, A., Xu, J., Legido-Quigley, C., … Proitsi, P.
Integrated lipidomics and proteomics network analysis highlights lipid and immunity pathways associated with Alzheimer’s disease
Translational Neurodegeneration
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2020
- Xu, J., Bankov, G., Min, K., Wretlind, A., Lord, J., Green, R., … Legido-Quigley, C.
Investigating the role of blood metabolites as biomarkers of cognitive function and dementia in the MRC 1946 British Birth Cohort
European Neuropsychopharmacology [Conference Abstract]
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2019
- Green, R., Lord, J., Maddock, J., Kim, M., Dobson, R., Legido-Quigley, C., … Proitsi, P.
Presentations
Turing Community Week
Oral
The Alan Turing Institute
2021
Turing Student Seminar
Oral
The Alan Turing Institute
2021
Research Showcase
Oral & poster
The Alan Turing Institute
2021
Maurice Wohl Clinical Neuroscience Institute
Centre Talk
Oral
King’s College London
2020
Maudsley BRC Training Conference
Oral & poster
King’s College London
2020
International Society of Clinical Biostatistics
Annual Conference
Oral & poster
Krakow (virtual)
2020
Alzheimer’s Association International Conference
Poster
Amsterdam (virtual)
2020
Alzheimer’s Research UK Conference
Poster
Cardiff (virtual)
2020
World Congress of Psychiatric Genetics
Poster (Guarantors of Brain Travel Award - £1000)
Anaheim, USA
2019
Maudsley BRC Annual Conference
Oral & poster
King’s College London
2019
Dementia Research Open Day
Oral (to public)
King’s College London
2019